Tales of an Enchanted Boyhood Alupola to Jaffna,1940 to 1960.

This re-call of times between the early years 1940 to 1960, covers the boyhood years of the author. The early part of the book relives the scenes in a tea-estate in Rathnapura, Sri Lanka. The latter half covers life in Jaffna. Various incidents of this period are related with a sense of humor. The stories related will I am sure, pluck your heart-strings. The way life was lived in the pre-plastic era and scenes of rural life of this era, will take you back over half a century.

1.       Price for delivery in Sri Lanka – Rs.950/- with postage and packing.

Please send a crossed cheque for Rs.900/- drawn in favour of Dr. Philip G Veerasingam, with your home address to:-

Dr. Philip G Veerasingam,

28, Mansuriya Lane,

Honiton Place,

Avissawella.

2.       Price for delivery overseas – US$ 20/-, Euro 15/- with postage and packing.

Email your home address to

philipv203@gmail.com.

I will instruct you on how to make your payment by ‘Smart remit’ through your local bank.

My best wishes,

Dr. Philip G Veerasingam.

27^th August 2014.

Gandhiji.

email from Dawood	13:01 (7 hours ago)
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When Gandhi was studying law at the University College of London, a white professor, whose last name was Peters, disliked him intensely and always displayed prejudice and animosity towards him. Also, because Gandhi never lowered his head when addressing him, as he expected, there were always “arguments” and confrontations.
One day, Mr. Peters was having lunch at the dining room of the University, and Gandhi came along with his tray and sat next to the professor. The professor said, “Mr Gandhi, you do not understand. A pig and a bird do not sit together to eat.” Gandhi looked at him as a parent would a rude child and calmly replied, “You do not worry professor. I’ll fly away,” and he went and sat at another table.
Mr. Peters, reddened with rage, decided to take revenge on the next test paper,  but Gandhi responded brilliantly to all questions. Mr. Peters, unhappy and frustrated, asked him the following question: “Mr Gandhi, if you were walking down the street and found a package, and within was a bag of wisdom and another bag with a lot of money, which one would you take?” Without hesitating, Gandhi responded, “The one with the money, of course.” Mr. Peters, smiling  sarcastically, said, “I, in your place, would have taken the wisdom, don’t you think?” Gandhi shrugged indifferently and responded, “Each one takes what he  doesn’t have.”  Mr. Peters by this time was fit to be tied. So great was his anger that he wrote on Gandhi’s exam sheet the word “idiot” and gave it to Gandhi. Gandhi took the exam sheet and sat down at his desk trying very hard to remain calm while he contemplated his next move. A few minutes later, Gandhi got up, went to the professor and said to him in a dignified but sarcastically polite tone, “Mr. Peters,  you signed the sheet, but you did not give me the grade.”

Best regards

Ebola outbreak sweeping West Africa started with two-year-old boy.

A team of researchers believe that they have identified the source of the disease - a toddler near the village of Meliandoua in remote eastern Guinea. The findings will be published soon.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2733122/Ebola-outbreak-sweeping-West-Africa-started-two-year-old-boy-infected-fruit-bat-say-researchers.html

25 August 2014

Baedeker: The most riotously un-PC travel guides ever!

The guides, founded in 1832 by German publisher Karl Baedeker, contain unforgiving comments on the 'natives' a traveller might have the misfortune to encounter.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2733416/The-riotously-PC-travel-guides-The-informed-detailed-authoritative-unguardedly-rude-Baedeker-Guides.html

25 August 2014

PS

During the second World War the Germans targeted British cities, apparently using the Baedecker travel guides to the UK. These were labelled by the British as 'Baedecker raids'.

PGV

Actor and film director Richard Attenborough dies.

Lord Attenborough died at lunchtime on Sunday. He was one of Britain's leading actors, before becoming a highly successful director.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2733312/BREAKING-NEWS-Actor-film-director-Richard-Attenborough-dies-aged-90.html

25 August 2014

How do they get these Pics??

email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai

Marriages etc.

email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai

1. How BEDROOM smells After MARRIAGE:

1st 3 yrs---Perfumes, Flowers,Chocolate,Fruits..
After 3 yrs---Baby powder,Johnson's, Baby creams, Lotions,Baby oils..,
After 15 yrs---Zandu Balm,Vicks,Iodex,Relispray..
After 40 yrs---Agarbatti..., incense.

2. Four stages of marriage:
Mad for each other,
Made for each other,
Mad at each other
Mad because of each other

3. What's Marriage?
Answer- MARRIAGE Is The 7th Sense of Humans
That Destroys All The Six Senses
And Makes The Person NON Sense...!

4. Definition Of Happy Couple -
HE Does What SHE Wants…
SHE Does What SHE Wants.

5. Wife: Dear, this computer is not working as per my command.
Husband: Exactly darling! its a computer, not a Husband!!!

6. Mistakes
'Laughing At Your Own Mistakes, Can Lengthen Your Life."- Shakespeare
"Laughing At Your Wife's Mistakes,Can Shorten Your Life"- Shakespeare's Wife


HUSBAND AND WIFE

A wife asks her husband,
"Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk and if they
have avocados, get 6.

A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk.

The wife asks him, "Why did you buy 6 cartons of milk?"
He replied, "They had avocados."

If you're a woman, I'm sure you're going back to read it again!
Men will get it the first time.

My work is done here.

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Water in the carburetor
WIFE: "There is trouble with the car. It has water in the carburetor."

HUSBAND: "Water in the carburetor? That's ridiculous "

WIFE: "I tell you the car has water in the carburetor."

HUSBAND: "You don't even know what a carburetor is. I'll check it out.
Where's the car?

WIFE: "In the pool"

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THIS IS A FRIGHTENING STATISTIC, PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST

WORRISOME IN RECENT YEARS.

25% of the women in this country are on medication for mental illness.

That's scary.

It means 75% are running around untreated.

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HE MUST PAY

Husband and wife had a tiff. Wife called up her mom and said,
"He fought with me again, I am coming to live with you."

Mom said,
"No darling, he must pay for his mistake. I am coming to live with you."

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Today's Short Reading from the Bible...

From Genesis: "And God promised men that good and obedient
wives would be found in all corners of the earth."

Then He made the earth round...

and He laughed and laughed and laughed

Knee operations are a 'waste of time' for many patients.

New research has found many middle-aged patients in the UK with mild osteoarthritis get little, if any, benefit as a result of keyhole surgery after experts looked at how best to treat torn meniscus, part of the cartilage that helps stabilise the knee.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2733954/Knee-operations-waste-time-patients-Study-finds-little-benefit.html

26 August 2014

The President Is Also Just Another Man.

email from kitta Rajaratnam	11:59 AM (18 hours ago)

 

MEN WILL BE MEN.........NO MATTER WHO........NO MATTER WHERE.........NO MATTER WHAT  !!!    Presidents  ARE  Also Human  !  Here is President Barrack Obama,  appearing to either be distracted,  or maybe even oggling at a rather shapely female's b0tt0ms.   The President of France,  Nicholas Sarkozy,  appears to be watching him,  with a smirk on his face   !    Well,  no harm done.   Afterall Mr. Obama is also just another man,  in addition to being a President   !

Palestinians in the West Bank – a documentary.

Email from PAT Botejue

This is a 60 minute documentary narrated by Anna Baltzer of the International Women's Peace Service. She is an American Jew who spent five months living with Palestinians in the West Bank and was witness to the harassment and oppression they labor under because of the Israeli Occupation. From having to wait at checkpoints for hours or even days, to being cut off from one's farmland because of the WALL, to having to leave one's home because Israeli settlers have moved in, Palestinians have been under duress for years, their land gradually and surely shrinking as Israel carves out more space for itself. Is it a religious war? Anna says it's about resources.

Despite the narrator's pleasant voice and calm demeanor, this is a harrowing video to sit through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch5XlEZoi1c#t=247

Why US and Israel wants to ban this video...

He's all yours now! The touching moment surrogate mum handed baby over to her sister.

Thanks to the remarkable selflessness of Ellie Fairfax, her sister Siobhan Terry is now the delighted mother of Fionan. He was born three months ago weighing 6lb 4oz after a four-hour labour.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2732218/He-s-The-touching-moment-surrogate-mum-handed-baby-sister.html

23 August 2014

Incredible moment mom is struck by lightning

The incredible moment an Idaho mother was struck by lightning was recorded on video by her daughter who was standing just feet away.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2732159/I-think-I-just-got-hit-lightning-Incredible-moment-mom-struck-storm-captured-video-daughter.html

24 August 2014

Pageant mom fed her daughter TAPEWORMS so she could lose weight

A Pageant mother from Florida fed her teenage daughter tapeworms to help her slim down for a competition. She purchased the eggs, which hatched after her daughter ingested them, in Mexico.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2731550/Pageant-mom-fed-teenager-daughter-TAPEWORMS-lose-weight-Girl-left-screaming-agony-toilet-bowl-writhing-parasites.html

24 August 2014

The fake plastic phone that could help addicts

Dutch designers say the noPhone is equivalent of a security blanket for phone addicts - a plastic 'brick' exactly the same size and weight as an iPhone.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2732317/The-fake-plastic-phone-help-addicts-wean-mobile.html

24 August 2014

The 'promised land'.

Email from Gunsie:-

THE PROMISED LAND AND THE CHOSEN PEOPLE - FINALLY THE PERFECT EDUCATIONAL VIDEO

It is worth every second of the 60 mins. Shamed to be an American

THE PROMISED LAND AND THE CHOSEN PEOPLE

A brief history of the land called Israel/Palestine/Canaan/the Levant.

http://vimeo.com/50531435

BANANAS with dark patches yellow skin - Anti cancer properties.

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I Never knew this! BANANASwith dark patches on yellow skin  The fully ripe banana produces a substance called TNF which has the ability to combat abnormal cells. So don't be surprised very soon the shop will go out of stock for bananas. As the banana ripens, it develops dark spots or patches on the skin. The more dark patches it has, the higher will be its' immunity enhancement quality . Hence the Japanese love bananas for a good reason. According to a Japanese scientific research, banana contains TNF which has anti-cancer properties. The degree of anti-cancer effect corresponds to the degree of ripeness of the fruit, i.e., the riper the banana, the better the anti-cancer quality.  In an animal experiment carried out by a professor in Tokyo U comparing the various health benefits of different fruits, using banana, grape, apple, water melon, pineapple, pear and persimmon, it was found that banana gave the best results. It increased the number of white blood cells, enhanced the immunity of the body and produced anti-cancer substance TNF. The recommendation is to eat 1 to 2 banana a day to increase your body immunity to diseases like cold, flu and others.  According to the Japanese professor, yellow skin bananas with dark spots on it are 8 times more effective in enhancing the property of white blood cells than the green skin version. PLEASE PASS THIS FOR THE INFORMATION OF OTHERS.